Day 35: Leverage - Give me a lever long enough...
Day 35 of pushing toward that $20K goal by October 31st, and I've been thinking about something that's changed how I see growing a business.
The Small Wins That Compound
For years, I've believed in compounding. Warren Buffett called compound interest the eighth wonder of the world, and I've applied that to skill development in my business.
Take something simple like shortcut keys. When I learn new software, I deliberately spend extra minutes each day learning the keyboard shortcuts. People laugh at this — fair enough, you're not going to shortcut key your way to financial freedom. But if you're using that program daily, those seconds saved add up to something meaningful.
This has been my approach: small skill improvements that build on themselves. It's worked, but I've hit a ceiling.
The Traditional Staff Route
Once you've maxed out personal effectiveness, the usual answer has always been staff.
But here's what comes with that: wages, overhead, and the mental load of management. You gain capacity but lose simplicity. You solve one problem but create new ones.
For someone trying to hit ambitious goals consistently, this felt like swapping one constraint for another.
What Changed My Mind
Working toward this $20K goal, I needed to post quality content consistently.
Instead of hiring someone to handle content, I built an AI tool in less than a day. Right now, as I speak, it's transcribing this, writing the blog post, generating an image, posting to my site, creating SEO metadata, and preparing it for social sharing.
Five minutes a day. No ongoing costs. No management headaches.
What This Actually Means
This isn't just about content creation — it's about rethinking leverage completely.
We now have tools that give you both the compounding effect of skill development AND the multiplication power of traditional staff, without the usual downsides.
You can get serious leverage without the burdens that historically came with it.
The Journey I'm Sharing
This isn't just my path to growing revenue. It's about showing other business owners that these tools exist, they're accessible, and you can build them to reduce stress and overhead.
The old progression — skills → staff → complexity — isn't the only path anymore.
There's now a third option: skills → tools → leverage without overhead.
That's the journey I'm documenting, and that's what I want every overextended business owner to see.
Compounding isn't just about interest anymore. It's about compounding without the traditional costs.
This is post 35 in my real-time journey from zero to $1 million. Following the actual decisions, tools, and breakthroughs as they happen.